laureate

Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒ.ɹi.ət/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.ət/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/

laureate (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
   • John Milton

     To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

   • Alexander Pope

     Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

   • 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt

     Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

• poet laureate
• Nobel laureate

laureate (plural laureates)

1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
   • Cleveland

     A learned laureate.

2. A graduate of a university.

laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)

1. (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous

• laureate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• laureate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• laureate at OneLook Dictionary Search

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

laureate f

1. plural of laureata

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

laureāte

1. vocative masculine singular of laureātus